One of the major goals of an ACS student chapter is to be as active as possible in outreach. The Augusta University Student Members of the American Chemical Society are highly focused on continuously bring attention to our student chapter at the university level, locally in our community, and nationally if possible. From August 2021 to May 2022, our club participated in several events both on and off campus that can be seen as successes in this area. We were able to partner with volunteering opportunities in our local community such as Day One Fitness, Girl Scouts, and various elementary schools. We had other local outreach activities such as the Faculty/Student Meet and Greet, several hosted webinars and seminars, fellowship activities that were nearly every month. All of these on-campus events were seen as successes. One challenge that we did face was getting members other than our officers to participate in these events, especially with COVID-19 still looming. However, we were able to make extraordinary strides and there appears to be a large number of members of our club that are willing to help at many of these events and want our club to be as active as possible as evident by the attendance of our final few events of the semester and the participation by the newly elected officers. We partnered with Georgia Gwinnett College in several virtual activities. Our chapter advisor gave a seminar that received wonderful feedback from the students that attended it (both from Augusta University and Georgia Gwinnett College). We also collaborated with Georgia Gwinnett to produce a Trivia Night tournament between the two student chapters. We collaborated with our local Nuclear Scholars Club, for which many of our members and officers are also apart of since it is a club within our chemistry program. For these events we were able to host recent graduates from our program who would discuss what they are doing now in industry (or in graduate school). I believe our events greatly improved on expanding our contributions to members of our club and our local community.

Augusta University: Successful student chapter

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